Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: droogte
- Amharic: ድርቅ
- Arabic: الجفاف
- Azerbaijani: quraqlıq
- Bashkir: ҡоролоҡ
- Belarusian: засуха
- Bulgarian: суша
- Bengali: খরা
- Bosnian: suša
- Catalan: la sequera
- Cebuano: mga dapit nga mamala
- Czech: sucho
- Welsh: sychder
- Danish: tørke
- German: Dürre
- Greek: ξηρασία
- Esperanto: sekeco
- Spanish: la sequía
- Estonian: põud
- Basque: lehorte
- Persian: خشکسالی
- Finnish: kuivuus
- French: la sécheresse
- Irish: triomach
- Scottish Gaelic: drought
- Galician: a seca
- Gujarati: દુકાળ
- Hebrew: הבצורת.
- Hindi: सूखे
- Croatian: suša
- Haitian: sechrès
- Hungarian: aszály
- Armenian: երաշտը
- Indonesian: kekeringan
- Icelandic: þurrkar
- Italian: siccità
- Japanese: 干ばつ
- Javanese: kahanan garing lan kurang
- Georgian: გვალვა
- Kazakh: құрғақшылық
- Khmer: គ្រោះរាំងស្ងួត
- Kannada: ಬರ
- Korean: 가뭄
- Kyrgyz: кургакчылык
- Latin: siccitate
- Luxembourgish: Dürre
- Lao: ແຫ້ງແລ້ງ
- Lithuanian: sausra
- Latvian: sausums
- Malagasy: hain-tany
- Mari: игече
- Maori: tauraki
- Macedonian: сушите
- Malayalam: വരൾച്ച
- Mongolian: ган гачиг
- Marathi: दुष्काळ
- Hill Mari: оярын
- Malay: kemarau
- Maltese: nixfa
- Burmese: မိုးခေါင်
- Nepali: खडेरी
- Dutch: droogte
- Norwegian: tørke
- Punjabi: ਸੋਕੇ
- Papiamento: e sekura
- Polish: susza
- Portuguese: a seca
- Romanian: seceta
- Russian: засуха
- Sinhalese: නියඟය
- Slovak: sucho
- Slovenian: suša
- Albanian: thatësira
- Serbian: суша
- Sundanese: halodo
- Swedish: torka
- Swahili: ukame
- Tamil: வறட்சி
- Telugu: కరువు
- Tajik: хушксолӣ
- Thai: วามแห้งแล้ง....
- Tagalog: tagtuyot
- Turkish: kuraklık
- Tatar: корылык
- Udmurt: кӧс аре
- Ukrainian: засуха
- Urdu: خشک سالی
- Uzbek: qurg'oqchilik
- Vietnamese: hạn hán
- Xhosa: imbalela
- Yiddish: טריקעניש
- Chinese: 干旱
Synonyms, close and similar words for drought
- dry spell
- dryness
- aridity
- drouth
- dearth
- deficit
- famine